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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who presented the third paper in the 1951 symposium?
(a) Richard Goldschmidt.
(b) Milislav Demerec.
(c) Barbara McClintock.
(d) Lewis Stadler.

2. Who said, "For us, neither the chemical code, nor the linkage map of the chromosome, nor the genes embodied in it, are enough"?
(a) C.D. Darlington.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) James Stilworth.

3. After Barbara's efforts were in vain to explain her discoveries she didn't talk except for the annual reports in what?
(a) The CIW yearbook.
(b) The Missouri yearbook.
(c) The Cold Spring Harbor yearbook.
(d) The Cornell yearbook.

4. In Hanson's informal notes concerning Barbara, he claims that she weighed approximately how many pounds?
(a) 110.
(b) 95.
(c) 100.
(d) 90.

5. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Leaping elements.
(b) Jumping genes.
(c) Leaping genes.
(d) Jumping elements.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Richard B. Goldschmidt die?

2. What was the first name of Barbara's mother?

3. How does a chemist see chromosomes?

4. What did Barbara's sister, Marjorie, become?

5. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?

(see the answer key)

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